Alerts

2011

New York, June 21, 2011--On the heels
of an attack on Agence France-Presse's Amman offices, the Committee to Protect
Journalists calls on the Jordanian government to hold to account those who
threaten or attack journalists.

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New York, June 20,
2011--A prominent Mexican newspaper columnist, his wife, and a son were
shot to death in their home in Veracruz, according to state investigators, a
shocking assault that underscores the country's ongoing crisis. The administration
of President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa must take decisive action to end to the cycle of
violence undermining Mexico's democracy, the Committee to Protect Journalists
said today.

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New York, June 20,
2011--Waqar
Kiani, a Pakistani journalist who was assaulted Saturday night by men in police
uniforms, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that he fears for his
safety and the safety of his wife and two young children. The attack came five
days after Kiani, 32, had written a story the U.K. Guardian newspaper about
being abducted and tortured in 2008.

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New York, June 20,
2011--Video footage of a Tamil journalist apparently executed in the final
stages of Sri Lanka's
bloody civil war underscores the need for an urgent international inquiry, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

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New York, June 20, 2011--Four employees of the Wajir
District Hospital attacked journalist Abdi Hassan Hussein at the hospital
on Saturday, the reporter told the Committee to Protect Journalists. Hassan, a
reporter for the Wajir
Community Radio Station in the far northeastern corner of the country, said
he visited the hospital with three colleagues to investigate complaints from
patients.

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New York, June 17,
2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists joins with our colleagues in
Pakistan in mourning the death of of reporter Shafiullah Khan, who died Friday of
injuries he had sustained in a June
11 suicide bombing in Peshawar, the administrative center for Pakistan's
strife-torn Federally
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the border with Afghanistan.

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New York, June
16, 2011--TheCommittee to Protect
Journalists condemns the vicious beating in Baku of international journalists Amanda
Erickson and Celia Davies, and calls on the authorities to bring their
attackers to justice.

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New York, June 16, 2011--TheCommittee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention and reported
beating in custody of Urinboy Usmonov, a local correspondent for the BBC
Central Asia service, and calls for his immediate release.